connection problem

cssilent · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

I am trying to emerge fluxbox and when I connect, it logs on as anon and says server refuses login...I get this same error with everything also..any suggestions??

cssilent · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

is it because I am behind a firewall?? I can only do webrsync too..not sync...Is there anyway I can bypass it??

cssilent · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

i get an error 416 too

Maedhros · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:45 am Post subject:

I could download it fine from here: ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/distfiles/fluxbox-0.9.10.tar.bz2. What happens if you try that mirror?
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cssilent · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

i cant download that either. I get the same, "The server refuses login," error. I get that on everything. Any other hints..I really don't want to reinstall. When I was installing it, i couldn't do a sync or rsync...i had to do a webrsync..is this because of the firewall or is it just me screwing up again? Any suggestions??

Maedhros · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:30 am Post subject:

It sounds like it probably is your firewall... but I have no idea what you can do to fix it, I'm afraid.

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amne · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:29 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to N&S.

Maybe you could post the output of a failed emerge command. Talking to the guys who run your firewall might probably help, too. Have you tried a mirror that uses http?
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narcos · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 8 Location: SA

If you're going through a firewall you need to specify credentials in your wgetrc (either in your ~ or /etc/wget/wgetrc)

http_proxy = yourproxy:port
no_proxy = localstuff.foo
proxy_user = username
proxy_passwd = password
ftp_proxy =yourproxy:port

Also check:
use_proxy = on
passive_ftp = off

Make sure your make.conf is setup properly too, wrt mirrors and rsync servers.

Hope that helps.
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